10: Global Empires
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The Golden Horde and the Black Death in Byzantium
A third of Western Europe is going to die from the Black Death. This is very important for our age of exploration, which we're trying to set up now. After so much of the European population is wiped out, and avenues are cleared for innovation, this is an optimistic story of what happens after playing. Meanwhile, something very important happens in Byzantium in 1453, which is that... Yeah, it falls. It's a thousand years late, but in a thousand years, let's face it, it's a long time. And it falls to the Ottoman Empire, which is an entity which we're going to cover in the next lecture. The hard part to force into the
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